Should I still take parcels for neighbors ?

[BlueSiamese]

Well I am fine helping neighbors out and we live on a street where most of them are friendly . I am having issues with occasionally collecting parcels for some of them though.

1. I had a delivery guy request me to take a parcel for someone on the street I said okay but have you left a note and the guys says yes .

At 8pm I had a loud knock on my door and I opened it to an angry lady who said do you have my parcel, I explained her yes and the guy requested me to take it and mentioned he is leaving a note . To which she said well he didn't. I gave her her parcel and she stormed off. (I thought may be it's best not to collect parcels for this lady)

1. I was leaving for work when I was asked by a different guy to collect another parcel. I did and the neighbors didn't bother coming over to collect it for days so finally before going away dh decided to give it to them as it was heavy.

1. Last week I had another parcel for a different neighbor but for three days no one came to collect. The postman showed me that they are leaving a note and wrote it in front of me. Finally yesterday when I was parking I saw the neighbors and said I got your parcel and gave it to her.

So my Aibu is should I simply start refusing parcels for neighbors as no one seem to be coming to collect them? Or be there local delivery person and make sure that I deliver them😏

No to deliver driver i have taken in so many parcels for my next door neighbour and she never let's on to me i even signed a phone for her when she was not in

I'd carry on doing it, provided you have space to keep the parcels. You have no obligation except to hand the parcels over when asked.
Having said that, the first woman you mention was very rude to you and perhaps you won't feel like doing it for her again! I expect she'd had a frustrating time finding out the details from the courier and blamed the wrong person.

At 8pm I had a loud knock on my door and I opened it to an angry lady who said do you have my parcel, I explained her yes and the guy requested me to take it and mentioned he is leaving a note . To which she said well he didn't.

What an oddball she is and a liar, to boot. If the driver didn't leave a note, how on Earth did she know where to go?

Anyway, if you don't want to take parcels, don't, it's as simple as that.

No way would I be obliging unappreciative people.
Not a chance.
I have enough door knocks of my own.

We have our parcel’s regularly delivered to someone on a different street to us who uses a side door as his front door and that side door is on our street and has the same number as our house.

He recently took a parcel I was waiting for from a courier, didn’t tell the courier he’d got the wrong address then went on holiday for a fortnight. Really irritating.

That first woman was horribly rude to you!

I think I'd err on the side of giving one chance and then saying no, sorry, I won't take packages for Number 73 here. I've got neighbors on either side, plus one more, and we all take packages for each other. Just took one yesterday and when she came to collect we had a heartfelt chat about my cat who had recently died. We do have a neighbour I won't take packages in for (across the road) because they never come to collect and never seem to be in.

We have so little reason for connection and community-building these days, it does make me sad that lots of people take advantage or spoil things with rudeness.